| How I got my life back
-- And how you can, too by Sol As a younger man, I was a "golden boy." My senior year of high school I quarterbacked the football team, headlined the school play, sang solos with the choir and was valedictorian. I won a big academic scholarship and finished near the top of my undergraduate class, won a Fulbright to study in Paris, landed a fellowship at an Ivy League school, received federal grants for graduate research in South America.... At 27, life came crashing down. One day I was playing basketball three hours on end, able to eat and drink whatever I pleased; the next, I was gripped by a mysterious illness that took away the foods, drinks and sports I loved, and even -- in the way chronic illness has of stripping one clean -- many of the people I loved. At first I was diagnosed with "depression." I felt deeply, however, that depression was the result, not the cause, of all that had suddenly gone haywire in my body. But I dutifully popped my pills until I nearly died of an adverse reaction. Growing desperate, I headed into "alternative" territory, seeking answers. My first stop on a twisted journey into the Wonderland of complementary therapies was at my mouth. A chiropractor suggested that I'd been poisoned by the mercury and other metals leaching from my dental work, so I spent a fortune getting my crowns and fillings replaced with supposedly benign materials. For all the damage this did to my wallet, it provided me with almost total symptom relief -- for five months. When my problems with yeast, leaky gut and chronic fatigue returned, it was with a vengeance. My old nemeses were joined by a bewildering array of seemingly unrelated symptoms that defied medical diagnosis. Despite a series of "negative" tests, I lay in bed at night afraid I was dying. In addition to my debilitating food allergies and fatigue, I suffered toothache, muscle spasms, back pain, hypoglycemia, difficulty focusing, chemical sensitivities.... After discovering that my dentist had replaced all my metal dental work with other metals, I underwent the nightmarish experience of having it all redone! This time there was no "spontaneous remission." My health continued to decline even though I took handfuls of supplements and tried everything from acupuncture to homeopathy to meditation. Eventually, I was forced to withdraw from my doctoral program, citing ill health. I scraped together funds, packed up what I could and moved to New Mexico to study qigong, the ancient Chinese technique of energy healing. Nearly three hours of qigong a day over the course of a year succeeded in getting me back on my feet, but I was still far from healthy. My problems with candida still festered, my diet remained limited, my gums were receding.... Two years later I was teaching high school when a round of abscesses hit me and I was forced to take antibiotics that wrecked my fragile immunity and gut terrain. Almost overnight I was practically bedridden. I slept 15 hours a day and eventually had to quit my job. At this juncture, I discovered the world of energetic clearing, specifically Dr. Devi Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET), which employed a form of muscle testing called kinesiology to determine her patients' allergies, a term encompassing chemical, environmental and nutritional sensitivities that deranged the immune system and contributed to a variety of "incurable" ailments. The goal was to treat chronic conditions by removing the allergic "blockages" that kept energy from flowing properly throughout the body. For all its promise, NAET left much to be desired, in my case. I tried a similar therapy called BioSET, developed by Dr. Ellen Cutler. BioSET expanded on NAET by clearing not just for allergens but simultaneously for underlying toxic factors, such as heavy metals. While initially providing some additional symptom relief, BioSET also failed to unknot the tangled web of my chronic illness. After a year spent making my living with a therapy derived from BioSET, I realized that a shortcoming of this type of energetic clearing was a typically "Western" focus on the physical--even though the techniques themselves employed pure energy! I became interested in addressing the physical body's energetic blueprint: the governing auric fields. The auric fields might be thought of as an interlocking set of high-frequency forcefields, each responsible for the proper functioning of a particular gland, organ, emotion, etc. The critical concept to grasp here is that disruption of the energy patterns of the auric fields creates disturbances in the body's blueprint that underwrite all disease processes, whether physiological or psychological. I came to believe that the nervous system, used in NAET and BioSET clearings, is inadequate for carrying the vast number of signals required for restoration of the body's damaged blueprint. Especially in chronically ill people, the nervous system is overwhelmed by the amount of data needed for an integrated repatterning with the potential to correct systemic functioning. After nearly 70 NAET and BioSET treatments, I still suffered from many debilitating symptoms. But encouraged by my ideas about auric fields, which were substantiated by kinesiological testing, and financially supported by private research funding, I committed myself to developing the technique I was already calling Potentiation. My partner Leigh and I moved to South America where I could perform research. I healed myself first, which took several months and involved considerable detoxification, then began working with clients. My approach was to map a completely new type of synergistic clearing, using sound to activate the latent intelligence of the DNA. This allowed me to work across the body-mind-spirit continuum of the auric fields. The rationale for clearing in this new way is straightforward. My own experience suggests that chronic illness requires a radical, simultaneous energetic repatterning. A clearing of this magnitude would exceed the carrying capacity of most nervous systems, but DNA, when properly activated by sound, is designed to process just such vast quantities of information. This is why geneticists refer to DNA as our "quantum computer." Another innovative aspect of Potentiation is that it is designed to be performed remotely. This distance approach was inspired by Dr. Larry Dossey's concept of the "nonlocalized mind" and its capacity to use intention to transcend spatial limits. Potentiation employs particular combinations of sounds, carrying the energies of the clearing, that reverberate along the earth's graphite ley lines to the recipient's DNA, initiating a domino effect of auric field repatterning that gradually restores the body's inherent wisdom. The session, a one-time event, takes 30 minutes. The resultant shifts surface in the weeks and months following as the auric fields recalibrate. For some, those shifts are felt intensely; for others they simply flow into a subtle healing pattern that can seem miraculous. We have pages of testimonials that the end results are dramatic indeed. In my own case, Potentiation has been a metamorphosis. The journey itself was challenging as my body/mind/spirit cleared itself at a "genetic" depth I hadn't imagined possible. But there can be no doubt as to the profundity of my transformation. At 35, I can swim a mile without stopping, my problems with candida and leaky gut have disappeared, I can eat whatever I please, and -- though no longer exactly a golden boy with my hair starting to silver -- I'm like a fine wine, getting better with age. Sol did his doctoral studies at Brown University before becoming chronically ill and embarking on his own life-changing healing odyssey that resulted in a revolutionary new energetic repatterning technique called Potentiation. He makes his home with his partner Leigh in Asheville, N.C., and lectures widely. The developers of Potentiation are not medical doctors and do not pretend to diagnose or treat illness of any kind. We make no claims, promises or guarantees relative to specific health challenges. You are solely responsible for initiating and continuing your own medical treatment and care. Contact Sol at (828) 216-3982 or solandleigh@yahoo.com. Copyright © 2004 Sol |
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